News for the EWU Community

EWU Red Takes Bloomsday Corporate Cup – Again!

For 15 years in a row, the EWU Red team has captured the coveted Bloomsday Corporate Cup. Grant Smith and Jeff Corkill have been on EVERY EWU Red Corporate Cup team since the beginning of time, accounting for not just 15 wins in a row, but 21 overall wins total. Jeff Rahn is not far behind. Carl Combs has been on the team since 1997. Scott Melville has been a team member for ‘many’ years but unfortunately was not eligible this year, so that’s where Dave Millet came into play.

Here’s the team’s amazing times for the 35th annual road running event, held on May 1, in Spokane:

Carl Coombs, IT specialist, soared through the 12 K (7.46 mile) course with a time of 41 minutes flat, placing 56th overall, out of 50,611 finishers. (age 45) 1,000 team points

The team had the overall highest number of points with 2,971. The Corporate Cup competition is scored by dividing each Corporate Cup runner’s time into the winning time for his or her age bracket. For example, if the age bracket winner had a time of 50 minutes, and your runner had a time of 60 minutes, your runner’s score would be 833 points (50 divided by 60 – .83333, or 833 points). The three highest scores on each team are added together to determine the team score. The highest team score wins.

Kyle King kicked butt at this year’s Bloomsday! EWU’s top cross-country / distance runner is red-shirting this year which means he had an opportunity to run this race, which I believe would not normally happen for a collegiate athlete. 24th overall at 37:26… crazy fast! His results: http://bloomsday.org/results/ResultDetail.asp?bib=339&Year=2011